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In December 2014, at least 81 persons, mostly Adivasis, were killed in serial attacks by NDFB(S) terrorists across many districts in Assam, retaliatory violence and police firing to control mobs. CNN-IBN's Subhajit Sengupta visits Sonitpur, one of the violence affected areas in Assam, to explore the fault lines of the...

New Delhi: NIA on Thursday arrested three suspected activists of NDFB-S, including Ajoi Basamutary on whose alleged instructions 36 people were killed in Assam's Sonitpur area in December.
In a statement, NIA on Thursday said the three accused were arrested from Kohima on January 14-15 night and had been taken on...

Guwahati: A top commander of NDFB(S), which was behind the December massacre of adivasis in the lower Assam districts, was apprehended by the army in Goalpara district of the state along with arms.
Defence sources said that based on specific inputs provided by the army's Gajraj Intelligence Unit, the troops of...

Tezpur: An encounter on Friday took place between National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB)-Songbijit militants and 12 Assam Rifles personnel in Itakhola area of Assam's Sonitpur district along Arunachal Pradesh. However, there has been no report of any injury or casualty so far, sources said.
Heavy firing was reported, but there...

Guwahati: Assam government on Saturday claimed that the overall situation in the restive districts has improved even as the number of people taking shelter in 81 relief camps in the wake of serial NDFB attacks has risen to nearly 1.15 lakh.
"The overall situation is improving. Incidents of violence between Bodo...

Political outfits have called for a state wide bandh in Assam. Home Minister Rajnath Singh who visited the conflict zone, ruled out any talks with the terrorist group NDFB and ordered an NIA probe. Victims are visibly angry lashing out at authorities in Sonitpur.
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Just a day after the massacre of Adivasis by National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) terrorists in three districts in Assam, Chief Secretary Jitesh Khosla is seen enjoying an elephant ride with his family at Kaziranga National Park.
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At least 68 people have been killed in serial attacks by suspected NDFB (Songbijit) terrorists at different places in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts of Assam. Home Minister Rajnath Singh has reached Guwahati to take stock of the situation arising out of violence in Assam.
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Guwahati: Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday called Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi to enquire about the prevailing situation in the state in the wake of killing of 65 people by NDFB(S) militants.
Gandhi called up Gogoi this afternoon and condemned the dastardly killing of innocent people by the militants,...

Guwahati: At least 40 people have been killed in serial attacks by suspected NDFB (Songbijit) terrorists at different places in Sonitpur and Kokrajhar districts of Assam.
Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said that PM Modi and Rajnath Singh had assured him of every possible help. "While 24 people were killed in...

Tezpur: A tea trader was killed and two others including a tea garden manger were injured in a grenade blast by suspected NDFB(S) terrorists at Dalgaon area in Darrang district, police said on Saturday.
The grenade was thrown last night at the Borgarah tea garden manager's office, in which the manager...

Guwahati: A teenage girl was shot dead by the NDFB in the presence of her parents in Assam's Chirang district as militants suspected her of being a police informer and a probe has been announced after chilling video of the killing was aired by local television channels.
The video, sent by...

Guwahati: Five NDFBSongbijit militants were killed in an encounter with a joint police and army team in lower Assam's Chirang district early on Wednesday morning, said a top police official.
The extremists exchanged fire with the security forces during an operation in the jungle areas of Raimati under Runikhata police...

Guwahati: An National Investigation Agency team will reach Assam on Monday to probe into the attacks by National Demorcratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants in three districts Kokrajhar, Baksa and Chirang.
The Curfew has been relaxed in Baksa from 10 am to 4 pm, in Chirang from 10 am...

Kokrajhar: The CRPF, Army and Assam state police on Sunday shot down two alleged NDFBSongbjit militants suspected of being involved in Kokrajhar violence in a combined operation in Sonitpur district along the AssamArunachal Pradesh. Two pistols and grenade have been recovered from the militants and the search is still on.
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Guwahati: There was an uneasy calm in Assam's Kokrajhar, Chirang and Baksa districts after 32 people were killed in attacks blamed on National Democratic Font of Bodoland militants. There were no reports of fresh violence, but curfew remains in force in the affected areas.
Fifty three companies of central paramilitary forces,...

Guwahati: The NDFB (Songbijit) on Saturday denied their involvement in the violence in Assam claiming it was "a political conspiracy by Assam government to trigger clashes between two communities.
A press statement by NDFB Secretary (Information and Publicity Wing) NE Esara said, "we ask the Assam government and its...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday condemned the "cowardly" terror attack in Assam that has claimed several lives and said that the Centre will take all measures to maintain law and order and restore peace there.
Singh, who is keeping a close watch on the situation, spoke to Home...

Nine more bodies were recovered from violencehit Baksa district of lower Assam, taking the toll to 32. The Army has been called in and curfew imposed in Kokrajhar and Baksa districts of Assam after attacks by National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants. Congress leader Meem Afzal said, "The Assam government...

Guwahati: Nine more bodies were recovered on Saturday from violencehit Baksa district of lower Assam, taking the toll to 32. The Army has been called in and curfew imposed in Kokrajhar and Baksa districts of Assam after attacks by National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants.
According to the police, heavily...

Guwahati: The Army has been called in and curfew imposed in parts of Assam after 23 people including women and children were killed
by National Democratic Front of Bodoland militants in separate attacks in Kokrajhar and Baksa districts.
According to the police, heavily armed NDFB militants fired indiscriminately in the...

Guwahati: At least 23 persons, including
children and women, were killed and 14 seriously injured by heavily armed NDFB(S) militants in two communallysensitive districts of Kokrajhar and Baksa of Assam since last night.
Shootatsight was ordered on Friday night in Kokrajhar and Baksa districts, falling under Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts (BTAD) area,...

Chirang/Udalguri: The NDFB's killing spree continued for the second day as they gunned down two persons and injured four others in two districts on Saturday, police said. A group of armed ultras belonging to NDFB's antitalk Song Bijit group raided Sakuwaserfung in Bijni subdivision of Chirang district at around 7:30...

Kokrajhar/Guwahati: As a fallout of the recent reports of abductions and killings in Assam, the Centre has asked the state government to do the status check on the current situation in the state. In the last five months 15 people have been abducted from the Bodoland Territorial Areas District.
The incidents...

Two suspected NDFB(S) terrorists were killed in an encounter with CRPF's CoBRA commandos in Chirang district on Tuesday.
According to CRPF officials, the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) wing of the force killed two unidentified hardcore NDFB(S) cadres at Khagrabari near Aie river under Dhaligaon police station in the wee...

Guwahati: Five years after the deadliest terror attack in Assam that killed 100 and injured 300 the main accused National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) chairman Ranjan Daimary has got bail. Daimary was handed over by Bangladesh in 2010.
The CBI did not oppose bail for Daimary. A clear hint that...

Guwahati: The Republic Day boycott called by Northeast militant outfits, including the ULFA and NDFB, failed to evoke response in Assam on January 26 with people coming out in large numbers to attend the celebrations. Governor JB Patnaik unfurled the National Tricolour and addressed the people at the central function...

Guwahati: If the development plank the Congress rode on in the two previous elections endeared itself to voters in Assam, the nearabsence of militancy for a considerable time made the party's position stronger in the 2011 assembly election.
Absence of major militant violence ever since the arrest of top NDFB and...

Guwahati: The Assam unit of the CPI on Wednesday promised to include all the insurgent outfits in the state in negotiations to solve the vexed militancy problem.
Releasing the party's election manifesto for next month's Assembly poll, Bhogeswar Dutta of CPI state council, said the NDFB and other militant outfits should...